our governments failure to decide their claims on time is on excusable. va's efforts to detain the backlog of not produce positive results. american legion service officers are working around-the-clock to help veterans through the process, and we all know that va help solve the problem, which is clearly is not enough. secretary shinseki has promised to break the backlog by 2015, and yet with more new claims outpacing decisions we're going the wrong direction. congress can no longer simply be concerned about this problem. congress, the a and american legion must work together to solve it. and that does not mean simply rewarding processors for fast decisions, regardless of quality. we have found an alarming amount of an accuracy of claims decisions made at the va regional offices throughout the country, and that only slows down the progress. earlier this year when congress somewhat american legion service officers for hearing about the backlog, we were encouraged. these service officers at the front line of the battle every day. they have unique perspective